I am and always have been aware of the need to distinguish my professional life from my personal life.

I am therefore using a different name on Facebook.

I am hiding my real identity from my Facebook appearance.

I am aware that that’s against Mr Zuckerberg’s regulations.

I am also aware that I am not the only one who is doing that.

I am not sure if it is true that I am thus part of what Ben Grosser (2014) claims to be the increasingly homogenised Facebook community.

I am thinking that there are still a lot of different profile types on Facebook, which are varying from business sites to overly transparent sites of some highly self-expressive individuals, to fake profiles and to people like me.

I am asking myself if that’s really homogenised.

I am not sure.

I am afraid though that I become unconsciously a victim of Facebook news feed algorithm manipulation.

I am uncertain if I should be afraid of such probable actions or if Mr “Codingconduct” has just emotionally manipulated me?

I am sure that manipulation only works if the manipulator shares common worldviews and beliefs with the manipulated.

I am sure that only then justificatory support for the manipulator’s central claim succeeds.

I am thus aware that Mr “Codingconduct’s” concern only concerns me because we share the same worry and expectation of Facebook.

I am aware that I only see a third of my actual Facebook news feed, as evaluated by Mr Herrera (2014).

I am sure that someone else has thought about what to select of my Facebook news for me to be seen.

I am a passive consumer of my own content.

I am deciding which part of the news feed is interesting for me.

I am informed that research puts much effort in finding out what my worldviews and beliefs are to aim to purposely lead my emotions into a certain direction to gain economic or even political benefits from it.

I am nevertheless aware that I am an individual and have my own brain.

I am able to defend myself against manipulation.

I am agreeing with Mr Gillespie when he concludes with “I think these represent a deeper discomfort about an information environment where the content is ours but the selection is theirs.” (Gillespie, 2014)

I am thus even more motivated to increase self-reflection to not become a victim of someone else’s decision to influence my emotions and thought.